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53675
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LV - Delaware River Bridge
Photos
Photo taken by Owl's Flight Photography
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)
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BH Photo #240303
Description
This structure occupies the piers of the first railroad bridge to cross the Delaware River at Easton. It is also notable for its fish-belly deck trusses, an unusual variant of the Pratt design.
-- Historic American Engineering Record
Facts
- Overview
- Abandoned pratt deck truss bridge over Delaware River on Lehigh Valley Railroad
- Location
- Easton, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, and Warren County, New Jersey
- Status
- Abandoned
- History
- Built 1901
- Builders
- - American Bridge Co. of New York (Edgemoore Plant)
- Central Iron & Steel of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (Fabricator)
- Lukens Iron & Steel of Coatesville, Pennsylvania (Fabricator)
- Pencoyd Iron Works of Pencoyd, Pennsylvania (Fabricator) [also known as A & P Roberts Co.]
- Slatington Rolling Mill Co. of Slatington, Pennsylvania (Fabricator)
- Railroads
- - Conrail (CR)
- Lehigh Valley Railroad (LV)
- Design
- Pratt deck truss
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.68778, -75.20248 (decimal degrees)
40°41'16" N, 75°12'09" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/482890/4504118 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Easton
- Inventory number
- BH 53675 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- February 1, 2023: New photo from Geoff Hubbs
- June 7, 2021: New photo from Geoff Hubbs
- April 29, 2021: Updated by Royce and Bobette Haley: Added category "Curved"
- December 28, 2020: New photos from Patrick Gurwell
- May 2, 2020: New photos from Geoff Hubbs
- December 30, 2019: New photo from Geoff Hubbs
- December 8, 2019: New photo from Geoff Hubbs
- November 6, 2015: Updated by Luke: Added info from the HAER
- August 2, 2013: Photo imported by Dave King
- September 27, 2012: Added by Luke Harden
Sources
- Luke
- HAER PA-543 - Lehigh Valley Railroad, Delaware River Bridge, Spanning Delaware River, south of Lehigh River, Easton, Northampton County, PA
- Geoff Hubbs
- Patrick Gurwell - pgurwell [at] gmail [dot] com
I've read it was 1988 or 1989 when Conrail abandoned the ex-LVRR bridge in favor of the parallel ex-CNJ bridge which was in better condition. Track swings were made at either end of the bridge to connect the Lehigh Line to the CNJ bridge.